Climate and average weather in Tuzantla

In Tuzantla, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: late October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tuzantla typically varies from 12°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 35°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while September is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Tuzantla for warm-weather activities are from early January to late February and late October to late December.

Hottest
May
33°
Coldest
Sep
17°
Wettest
Sep
328 mm
Driest
Apr
1 mm
Rain / yr
1344 mm
128 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
655 m
19.2°N
Clearest
Feb
25% cloud

Tuzantla is municipal seat of Tuzantla, State of Michoacán, Mexico.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Tuzantla weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Tuzantla, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Tuzantla stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 33°C and low of 18°C; the coolest is September, with an average low of 17°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in March.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2712
Feb2913
Mar3114
Apr3317
May3318
Jun2919
Jul2718
Aug2717
Sep2617
Oct2716
Nov2814
Dec2713

How hot and cold Tuzantla really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Tuzantla feels like about 33°C (around April 30). About 53 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan27271212
Feb29291313
Mar31311414
Apr33331617
May33331818
Jun29291919
Jul28271718
Aug28271717
Sep26261717
Oct27271616
Nov27281414
Dec27271313

Average hourly temperature in Tuzantla

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on May afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in September, near 17°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Tuzantla weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan27° / 12°101118.4
Feb29° / 13°70.511.37.4
Mar31° / 14°80.611.96.1
Apr33° / 17°10.312.44.8
May33° / 18°294.612.94.2
Jun29° / 19°23520.313.14.1
Jul27° / 18°27225.3134.1
Aug27° / 17°31027.312.73.9
Sep26° / 17°32826.712.13.9
Oct27° / 16°12116.611.65.6
Nov28° / 14°193.811.17.7
Dec27° / 13°40.710.98.4

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Tuzantla gets about 1344 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.9 months, from around May 30 to Oct 26, peaking in August at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 31.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 328 mm over about 27 wet days; April is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 30 · 90%Mar 31 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb21
Mar21
Apr10
May165
Jun6720
Jul8225
Aug8727
Sep8827
Oct5417
Nov134
Dec21

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tuzantla collects about 1344 mm of rain across 128 wet days — roughly 112 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 328 mm, while April is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 68% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1078129235272310328121194
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan101
Feb71
Mar81
Apr10
May295
Jun23520
Jul27225
Aug31027
Sep32827
Oct12117
Nov194
Dec41

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Tuzantla, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around May 31. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 1 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around October 24. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 24 · 88%Sep 4 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb8416
Mar8416
Apr8020
May7129
Jun3763
Jul2575
Aug2278
Sep1981
Oct4753
Nov7624
Dec7921

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 17, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 10 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.07:236:20
Feb11.37:166:37
Mar11.96:566:48
Apr12.46:296:56
May12.96:117:06
Jun13.16:087:17
Jul13.06:167:20
Aug12.76:277:06
Sep12.16:336:40
Oct11.66:416:14
Nov11.16:556:00
Dec10.97:136:04

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Tuzantla averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.0 months, from around Oct 27 to May 27. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 94% fewer than the February peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2424 daysSep 11 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb21Bright
Mar23Bright
Apr20Bright
May16Bright
Jun6Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov19Bright
Dec21Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Tuzantla, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around June 1 to November 3. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 4 to May 31, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 100%Aug 25 · 1%muggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan99100
Feb99100
Mar98200
Apr98200
May7016122
Jun11124928
Jul047423
Aug026831
Sep026037
Oct8196112
Nov5227201
Dec92710

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Tuzantla is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 11 · 7 km/hSep 1 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Tuzantla

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Tuzantla's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Tuzantla

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Tuzantla throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early November, Tuzantla is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Tuzantla for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to early March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 8.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan8.3ideal
Feb7.4good
Mar6.1good
Apr4.8fair
May4.3fair
Jun4.1fair
Jul4.1fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.9fair
Oct5.6good
Nov7.7ideal
Dec8.4ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Tuzantla for hot-weather activities is from early November to mid May, with a peak score in the third week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 20 · 9.2

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Tuzantla, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around May (highs near 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around September (highs near 26°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Tuzantla sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tuzantla by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Tuzantla peaks around March 22 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 7 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 22UV 13Dec 14UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Tuzantla

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct75
Nov6.54
Dec63

Air quality in Tuzantla by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Tuzantla is worst in September — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.8× the cleanest month (March, 22 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorPoorModerateSep 1439 µg/m³Mar 1223 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb25Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr37Poor
May39Poor
Jun33Moderate
Jul38Poor
Aug37Poor
Sep40Poor
Oct35Poor
Nov36Poor
Dec34Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tuzantla is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Tuzantla banks about 4,422 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan299
Feb308
Mar388
Apr435
May481
Jun412
Jul383
Aug377
Sep354
Oct356
Nov325
Dec304

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Tuzantla receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Feb 11 to Jun 15. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the April peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 197.6 kWhDec 174.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb6.0Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr7.6Intense
May7.1Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Tuzantla?

Tuzantla sits at 19.2°N, 100.6°W, 655 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Heróica Zitácuaro, 34 km away.

Topography around Tuzantla

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Tuzantla.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tuzantla has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 615 m around an average of 705 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,030 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,546 m.

The land around Tuzantla is covered by trees (59%) and shrubs (29%) within 3 km, shrubs (44%) and trees (36%) within 16 km, and trees (58%) within 80 km.

3 km
615 m
16 km
1,030 m
80 km
3,546 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Heróica Zitácuaro 34 km · Valle de Bravo 46 km · Ciudad Hidalgo 54 km · Tejupilco de Hidalgo 55 km · Huetamo de Núñez 73 km · Maravatío de Ocampo 78 km · Zinapécuaro de Figueroa 78 km · San Antonio Acahualco 84 km

Mexico travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 / 127 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 54% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$13,889
2025
Happiness
7.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
43%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
24.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 440
Religion
Catholic 78%no religion 11%other Evangelical Churches 8%Jehovah Witness 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Tuzantla (19.2029°, -100.5668°, elevation 655 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).